HTDE: Sheets and Blankets
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Peter once again in your Wait, wait, wait feed. |
| 0:04.6 | I am so pleased to present to you another episode of How to Do Everything by Wait, Wait, |
| 0:09.4 | producers, Ian and Mike. |
| 0:12.2 | Now, remember, you can only get these episodes of how to do everything in our feed for a short while, |
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| 0:21.9 | subscribe to how to do everything at their own feed. Thanks. |
| 0:26.6 | Hey there, Kevin and Rebecca. What can we help you with? This is an issue that's been going on |
| 0:32.0 | for a long time, but we have this thing where we go to bed at night and we we have like lined up our |
| 0:43.6 | sheets and blankets in a way that works for both of us then we make the bed i mean the bad we make |
| 0:49.3 | the bad right that is made okay and it's been reset and everyone is like happy. |
| 0:54.6 | Sure. |
| 0:55.0 | And then when we wake up the following morning, almost without fail, like I would say 90% of the time, the sheet is pulled towards Rebecca. |
| 1:06.6 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:07.1 | And the blanket has been pulled towards me. |
| 1:11.0 | Whoa. Okay. So she only has been pulled towards me. Whoa. |
| 1:11.7 | And so she only has sheet and I have blanket. |
| 1:15.9 | Well, and in my, I would also say in my defense or in my, well, actually not my defense, |
| 1:20.6 | I should say my interest is I'm a marriage therapist and we wake up in the morning sometimes and we're actually like angry with each other. |
| 1:32.1 | I'm like, why did you take that whole, why did you take the blanket? |
| 1:35.4 | Like, what's your problem, you know? |
| 1:37.5 | And so it has sometimes some residual frustrations in the morning, which, you know, I'm sort of like, why do we even |
| 1:45.7 | have strong feelings about this? How is this happening? I don't know how to make it any better. |
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